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Android is Wiping iPhone and iPad Out, Soon to Become Most Used Operating System

Summary: Samsung's phones alone outpace iPhone sales (at 1:2 ratio) and Android tablets approach majority market share

Apple must be nervous. Its fake apology (court-mandated retraction, for lying about Android) is rather telling. I convinced several friends and also my wife to buy Android and avoid Apple simply because Android is better; it's no longer just a matter of price. The bad PR Apple has been getting for its frivolous lawsuits is not helping either. Here is a new example of bad PR:



Apple was recently slapped with a court order in UK, after losing an appeal, to apologize on its UK website that Samsung did not copy it's iPad design. Apple has complied with the judgment and posted a link at the bottom of their UK website which takes a user to the Samsung / Apple UK judgment page.



But all the news sites we come across slam Apple with headlines like "Apple Publishes Non-Apology To Samsung On Its Website To Comply With U.K. Court Ruling" or this article:

So Apple posted an 'apology' on its website today, and as you can probably guess, it's not much of an apology at all.

"9th July 2012 the High Court of Justice of England and Wales ruled that Samsung Electronic (UK) Limited's Galaxy Tablet Computer, namely the Galaxy Tab 10.1, Tab 8.9 and Tab 7.7 do not infringe Apple's registered design No. 0000181607-0001," Apple's half-arsed apology reads, although there's no mention of the word "sorry", or even the word "regrets", anywhere to be seen.

The cheeky apology goes on to point out that Samsung didn't copy the Ipad because it isn't "cool" and uses a quote from the UK judge that says Samsung's tablets "do not have the same understated and extreme simplicity which is possessed by the Apple design".



By not apologising Apple has only gotten yet more negative publicity. Pamela Jones, who used to defend Apple, calls it "bratty":



Apple has posted on its website, as ordered by the UK court, and upheld on appeal, a rather ungracious notice that Samsung did not copy Apple according to the UK court (but Apple adds it still thinks it does and other courts agree with it). I would like to show it to you, so you can see the kind of legal advice Apple is following, because what the UK court held was that nobody would imagine that a Samsung phone is an iPhone.

Apple did not provide you with a link to the order telling Apple to publish a notice on its websites either, so here it is. Ask yourself as you read it and then read Apple's notice if it followed the order's spirit or even its letter, except in the most strained way.


It is rather amusing to see this. It helps validate stereotypes about Apple. Since Microsoft destroyed Nokia -- a tragic story in its own right -- and took it down to obscurity we find that Android is marching strong and Apple sales disappoint. Android is growing at Apple's expense in tablets, not just smartphones, with high profits and an impressive sales rate. Dominic Kennedy writes:

Samsung has maintained its leadership position in the worldwide smartphone market, posting another record quarter for itself and the industry, and more than double the total volume of Apple. It's the first time since 4Q09 that a single company has held more than 31% market share in a single quarter.



Gartner, typically an Android- and Linux-hostile firm, admits that Android will also beat Windows, but it says it can take four years. This is nonsense. Android is activated about half a billion times per year (and growing). It can outpace Windows by the end of next year in terms of installbase. In terms of sales, it might already be the number one OS.

Jim Zemlin recently noted Android's amazing growth. It brought Linux to many fingertips, but let us go further and aspire or push for freedom at the applications and hardware level, not just the OS. Peripheral networks, e.g. carriers, spectrum, are another key area for activism. Techrights intends to take it up a notch when it turns six, hopefully with more coverage just like in the old days. Celebrations are premature in a world full of moles, corrupt politicians, and a patent system turned into government-imposed protectionism (e.g. against South Korean firms).

Zemlin

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